Re: Comments starting with "1." will make the "." disappear?

IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:51:10 +0100

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On 11/12/25 08:44, Peter P. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just discovered that beginning a comment with a number and a full stop
> as in "1." will make the fulls top disappear when exiting editing of
> that comment. This is with Pd-0.56.1 and I wonder if this behavior has
> always been around?

yes.

it has been reported as <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1291>

the problem is, that a comment (like msgboxes and objectboxes) are 
parsed into lists of atoms as an internal representation.
so the string "1." gets interpreted as the number '1' (just like in  in 
[float 1.0]).
when displaying the comment, the atoms are rendered according to their 
value, and the number '1' is shown as "1".

this not only happens at the beginning of a comment, but anywhere. e.g. 
"the 1. example shows 1e3" will render as "the 1 example shows 1000".

the workaround is to make the word not look like a number.

for version numbers, use add an extra ".0" or similar (e.g. "1.0.0"), 
for enumerations use "#1" or "1)" instead of "1.".

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